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Naming Incidents... How about this one?
Naming The Incident: The first on scene engine takes command of the incident, which of course means naming the incident. I have to admit that years ago, I was responded to an unknown gallon container that had fallen out of a vehicle, and had been ran over by others. Prior to our arrival, law enforcement and the first on scene engine company secured the "hot zone", waiting for (us) the hazmat team's arrival. Setting up a spotting scope, we were able to confirm what the contents were. Additionally, an eye witness confirmed at the same time the type and identification of the vehicle that spilled the reported hazardous materials. It was veterinarian that specialized in the insemination of horses... The real deal "horse whisperer" lives 1.5 miles from the fire station. We ended up naming this the "KY" incident.
"KY Command, go ahead..."
So now that we have reviewed who gets to name the incident, how about this vehicle into a structure?
TCSS,
CBz (Retd.)
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Paul Dudan on
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Weiner Command?!? Lol
We normally use '57 Fire Command' being our depatment radio number is 57. In a case with multiple incidents in town, a road name or specific location is used. 26 Millbrook Road becomes 'Millbrook Command'
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Permalink Reply by lang on
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I'd just go plain and simple with "Oscar Myer" command. One night we were on an elavator rescue and my OIC took "Big Daddy" command. It was funny to hear big daddy command from dispatch
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on
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Wiener Wrap
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Permalink Reply by Ron Ayotte on
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For the photo... Weiner command! Back to reality...
We use the street name as command, unless we are at a well known location, such as a school, shopping center or business name... for example...
Mechanic Street Command
City Hall Command
Hannaford Command
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Permalink Reply by FETC on
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I am with Ron, the use of a trivial name provides no geographic location of the incident. Therefore the street name is used in mt department, once in a while a higher profile business name might be used as well.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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For commercial and multi-occupancy residential fires, we ususally use the name of the business or apartment building, for example Food Lion Command or Harborside Command.
For wildland/WUI fires or smaller residential fires, we typically just use the street name: Smith Street Command.
If the street is a long one with the possibility of two or more simultaneous incidents, we generally use the cross street as the Command designation. For example, if we have two simultanous incidents on Highway 278, one might be Pope Avenue Command and the other might be Shelter Cove Lane Command.
It works for us.
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Permalink Reply by Olivia Jones on
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Ok yall are being way to linear in your thinking of course we use street or buisness names for real command names.... I dont think thats what the poster was trying to get so Im going to call this Doggy Style Command..... yes I went there all right
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